Kris Kristofferson, Singer-Songwriter, Actor, Dies at 88

[Graybeard]

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Sunday, 29 September 2024 06:36 PM EDT

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and A-list Hollywood actor, has died.

Kristofferson died at his home in Maui, Hawaii on Saturday, family spokeswoman Ebie McFarland said in an email. He was 88.

McFarland said Kristofferson died peacefully, surrounded by his family. No cause was given. He was 88.

Starting in the late 1960s, the Brownsville, Texas native wrote such classics standards as “Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down,” “Help Me Make it Through the Night,” "For the Good Times" and "Me and Bobby McGee." Kristofferson was a singer himself, but many of his songs were best known as performed by others, whether Ray Price crooning “For the Good Times” or Janis Joplin belting out “Me and Bobby McGee.”

Kristofferson, who could recite William Blake from memory, wove intricate folk music lyrics about loneliness and tender romance into popular country music. With his long hair and bell-bottomed slacks and counterculture songs influenced by Bob Dylan, he represented a new breed of country songwriters along with such peers as Willie Nelson, John Prine and Tom T. Hall.

"There's no better songwriter alive than Kris Kristofferson," Nelson said during a November 2009 award ceremony for Kristofferson held by BMI. "Everything he writes is a standard and we're all just going to have to live with that."

As an actor, he played the leading man opposite Barbara Streisand and Ellen Burstyn, but also had a fondness for shoot-out Westerns and cowboy dramas.

[Land_Owner]

Truly a legend in our time making the music that has warmed the fire in our souls. His energy in this world will be missed.

[nw_hunter]

Truly a legend in our time making the music that has warmed the fire in our souls. His energy in this world will be missed.

Yep! Here is one of my favorites by Kris
telling us, what goes around.......Comes around

Here comes that rainbow again  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej1I-IrHWCc


Lyrics

The scene was a small roadside café
The waitress was sweepin' the floor
Two truck drivers drinkin' their coffee
And two okie kids by the door
"How much are them candies?" They asked her
"How much have you got?" She replied
"We've only a penny between us"
"Them's two for a penny, " she lied
And the daylight grew heavy with thunder
With the smell of the rain on the wind
Ain't it just like a human?
Here comes that rainbow again
One truck driver called to the waitress
After the kids went outside
"Them candies ain't two for a penny"
"So what's it to you?" She replied
In silence they finished their coffee
Then got up and nodded goodbye
She called, "Hey, you left too much money"
"So what's it to you?" They replied
And the daylight was heavy with thunder
With the smell of the rain on the wind
Ain't it just like a human?
Here comes that rainbow again

[gypsyman]

  Never be another group like The Highwaymen. Willie is the only one left. Sure do like that music. R.I.P. Kris Kristofferson !